What is cyberbullying? How it similar to and different from ...

[biggirl4568]

What is cyberbullying? How it similar to and different from traditional forms of bullying? What can clinical mental health counselors do to confront cyberbullying?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Type of emotional abuse that includes the use of hostile language (deliberate rather than accidental) that hurts the listener. Victims are frequently told that their perception of reality and their emotions are wrong.
 
  a. Physical abuse
  b. Emotional abuse
  c. Financial abuse
  d. Verbal abuse

[jaygar71]

Answer to Question 1

Cyberbullying, Similarities/differences with traditional forms of bullying, Counselors
a. Cyberbullying:
i. Using the Internet, cell phones, or other electronic devices to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person
b. Similarities/differences with traditional forms of bullying
i. Cyberbullying attacks can take place anonymously and quickly involve hundreds of participants and onlookers
ii. isolates and haunts victims relentlessly through the internet
iii. Similarities; Creates similar effects: fear, reduced self-esteem and sense of safety, social isolation, embarrassment, increased suicidal risk
c. What counselors can do:
i. take the issue seriously
ii. provide psychoeducation for parents
iii. provide support groups
iv. provide solution-focused counseling
v. provide supportive individual therapy that includes skill training
vi. work with perpetrators of cyberbullying
vii. advocate laws and regulations that prohibit cyberbullying

Answer to Question 2

D

[biggirl4568]

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[jaygar71]

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